For those of your who have been asking to see photos from our KPTZ party on May 5, here are two links to photo galleries of our 1st Anniversary Celebration. Photography courtesy of two of our DJs, both professional photographers, Barney Burke and Jeff Eichen. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

KPTZ has the honor of being the 77th Annual Rhody Parade’s Grand Marshal. All volunteers past and present are invited to join the founders, board members and staff to march at the start of the parade representing KTPZ and celebrating our first year or broadcasting eclectic, authentic community radio.

We are gathering on or before 12:30 p.m. at the Fire Station on Lawrence Street. The parade starts at 1:00 p.m. The route is about a mile long through town, and will last about an hour.

Have fun with your attire, but wear comfortable boots or shoes. We have 2012 commemorate t-shirts available at a discount to those marching in the parade. Stop by the Station this week to get yours.

RSVP to volunteer@kptz.org or call the Station at 360.379.6886.

Hope to see you there!

THANK YOU to all of the wonderful, generous people and local businesses from our community who contributed their time, talents, services, food and prizes for drawings to sponsor our KPTZ events during our May 2-5 On-Air Fund Drive, 1st Anniversary Celebration Party on May 5, and Ribbon Cutting and Open House on May 14! What an amazing show of support!

ON-AIR FUND DRIVE

MERCHANTS

Banana Leaf

Discovery Bay Golf Club

Dream City Market & Cafe

Ferino’s Pizza

Ichikawa Japanese Cuisine

Metro Bagels

Northwest Maritime Center Chandlery

Pedro’s Fiesta Jalisco Mexicana Restaurant

Port Hadlock Yarns

Port Townsend Aero Museum

Port Townsend Athletic Club

Rosa Delicia Mexicana Restaurant

Sweet PT

The Ajax Cafe

VOLUNTEERS, click here

 

PARTY

MERCHANTS

Bazaar Girls Yarn Shop

The Candle Store

Dancing Silver Designs at Gallery by the Bay

Earthenworks

Elevated Ice Cream and Candy Shop

Jo Glo Interiors

Kimberley’s Hair and Nails

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

Perfect Dreams Cupcakes

Phoenix Rising

Port Townsend Aero Museum

The Rose Theater

Seagrass Interiors

Sideshow Variety

Spruce Goose Cafe

Tickled Pink

What’s Cookin!

Williams James Books

FOOD DONATIONS

Anca’s Bakery

Bon Apeitit

Candaces’s Cookies

Mount Townsend Creamery

Pane d’ More

QFC

Safeway

Sunrise Coffee

EXTRA HELP

Wendell Ankeny

Goodwill Industries

Just Ask Me Rentals

Laundro-Mutt

Chris Overman

Mountain Spirit Herbal Co.

Max Pinton

Quimper Sound

Sign Station

The Leader

DANCE CONTEST JUDGES

Jan Burr

Janice Eklund

Ling Hui O’Connor

Karl Sebastian

Hiroko Dennis

MUSIC

Ron McElroy

Bethany Patten

Caleb Peacock

Lost in the Shuffle

The Pitfalls

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Leslie Aickin

Carrie Blair

Ellen Bonjorno

Ela Brickson

Tom & Molly Booth

Lee Erickson

Thaddeus Jurczynski

Ann Katzenbach

Cheryl Spector

Antonia Thacher

Terry Wagner

ALL VOLUNTEERS, click here

 

RIBBON CUTTING & OPEN HOUSE

Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors

MUSIC

The Alternators

FOOD

Candace’s Cookies

Rosa Delicia Mexicana Restaurant

Our 2012 t-shirt was designed by local artist and KPTZ volunteer Tom Booth. It commemorates KPTZ being honored as this year’s Rhody Parade Grand Marshal and all of the volunteers at KPTZ who have made our first year on the air a success!

 

If you have volunteered at KPTZ, we invite you to march in the parade with us on Saturday, May 19. We will gather at the Fire Hall on Lawrence Street on or before 12:30 p.m. The parade starts at 1:00 p.m. Have fun with your “electic, authentic” attire, but wear comfortable shoes or boots. The route is about a mile and the parade through town will last about an hour. Contact our volunteer coordinator to RSVP you’ll be joining the procession at volunteer@kptz.org. Drop by the station to get your limited edition t-shirt (discounted for those marching in the parade). T-shirt colors are blue, sand and pistachio green.

Wow, it was a year ago today that Scott Wilson wrote the editorial Here comes KPTZ in the Leader: 

“KPTZ, the new nonprofit radio station, is launching this week. Turn your FM radio dial to 91.9 at 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 to hear the first words and music from the station….

The new station will have an immediate impact on local life. Mostly driven by volunteers, it will feature music spun by local experts and musicians, talk shows devoted to local topics and even newscasts.

Creating the local radio station has been a labor of love since Sherry Jones, Collin Brown, Colin Foden and Ann Katzenbach got together with the idea in 2006. Their talks led to an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and a license was granted in 2007. Since then the station incorporated, Jones left the board and National Public Radio alum Larry Stein, together with engineer Bill Putney, joined the board.

The City of Port Townsend came through with an offer of studio space at the Mountain View campus, now leased by the city. That provided 750 square feet for a broadcast facility. And in November 2010 the station got its final permit for a radio tower.

Now, it’s ready to go live with local talent.

Just one example is Ray Schroff, featured by Nicholas Johnson in this week’s Leader. Schroff will be hosting a two-hour weekly show called “Dream City Jukebox” that you will be hearing shortly after KPTZ goes on the air. Schroff is one of dozens of people who will find their new voice on our local airways.

Congratulations to all who helped make this debut possible, and we’re looking forward to hearing the first programs on KPTZ.” - Scott Wilson

What a blast from the past! And here we are celebrating our 1st Anniversary, thousands upon thousands of programming and volunteer hours later! We hope you have enjoyed listening as much as we have enjoyed bringing you eclectic, authentic community radio 24/7. Keep on listening!

And, please join all of us here at KPTZ and the Chamber Ambassadors on Monday, May 14, at 3:00 p.m. for our Ribbon Cutting and Open House to celebrate our first year of being on the air! Drop by to say “Hi!”, have some birthday cake and enjoy live music by The Alternators.